It's me. Hi. I'm the problem.

In Taylor Swift's hit Anti-Hero, she sings:I have this thing where I get older but just never wiserMidnights become my afternoonsWhen my depression works the graveyard shiftAll of the people I've ghosted stand there in the room ...It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's meAt tea time, everybody agreesHonestly, I've never felt more seen. (Except in my case, it's not the people I've ghosted, but rather the...

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Putting our life in Dublin to rest

It's no surprise to anyone who knows me that I wasn't exactly keen on moving back to the U.S. in 2018.  For me personally, our time in Dublin was one of the best periods of my life: my mysterious health issues almost immediately disappeared; I found new hobbies that brought me a great deal of joy (and developed friendships with people through those hobbies that were my friends first and foremost,...

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Miami and Key West, here we come!

Back in December as we were considering what we wanted to do for our 20th anniversary, I was almost paralyzed with indecision. So many of our friends are traveling, but we haven't been on a plane since we flew home from our Mardi Gras / Norwegian cruise through the Western Caribbean on February 23, 2020. Vaxxed & boosted, we felt it was time. Still, the idea of international travel made me kind...

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